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Lucy Pollock  : 2 weeks Spanish course in Buenos Aires I had already done an Italian course through CESA in Florence, so this gave me a fairly good idea of what to expect. I imagined the lessons would involve a mixture of grammar exercises and general conversation with other students from all over the world.

Sarah Osprey: 1 wk Summer Intensive Course in Nice I had been to the French school in Nice last year so I knew roughly what to expect and my expectations were met. In lessons my abilities were stretched, the teaching was of a high standard and given that we spent much of the time debating and […]

Mrs Johnston : 1 wk Standard Course I wanted to spend a well structured week studying Italian and hoped for good progress in the language, from a limited starting point. 

Alex Mackula   Russian course: 12 weeks   Gap Year    Before my arrival in St Petersburg I expected to gain a lot from the course.  During my basic learning of Russian before the course began I realised just how complicated the language was. I assumed that the actual course would be equally challenging but as I would be […]

Sarah : 2 wks Standard Course I knew it would be a short course, so I didn’t expect to learn more than some basic grammar and words, just enough to make simple sentences.  In general, I didn’t really know what to expect apart from what the CESA Briefing Pack said about Moscow itself.

Claire Jones   10 weeks    Intensive Russian course   I expected to get basic grounding in the Russian language, understand more about grammar, and be able to speak conversationally. I hoped to experience various aspects of Russian culture, Russian history etc. to set me up prior to reading Russian at Uni. The amount of language […]

Katy Heinemann : French teenage Course : 1 wk I expected everyone at the Summer School to be fluent French speaking (don’t know why, nerves I guess), and the language students to be less international than they were. I also expected far less people at the campus.

Ania: 2 weeks Summer School San Sebastian, Spain I expected to improve my Spanish conversation and grammar skills and have the opportunity of meeting new people.

Katie Allen : 4 weeks July/August I had done a week’s course in Florence before so I knew roughly what to expect from that side of things. I wasn’t sure what living with a host family would be like but I was hoping for a relaxed friendly atmosphere.  Thankfully I felt that my expectations were […]

Alex Lewington: 20 weeks in Berlin I was hoping that the course would help improve my German language skills enough to help me through my final A level exam, and I was expecting it to be tough but doable. An absolutely brilliant course. Not only did my German language Gap Year help improve the quality of my German […]